US sanctions Cuban president as Trump turns up heat on island’s leadership

Published June 4, 2026 11:14pm ET



The State Department has sanctioned Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, along with four other individuals and five entities within the island nation’s communist government.

The sanctions are “part of the Trump Administration’s comprehensive push to end the Cuban regime’s decades-long campaign of political, ideological, and institutional warfare against the United States and to hold accountable those who sustain its operations and profit from the Cuban people’s oppression,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday.

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